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ROYAL ASSENT EXPECTED AFTER .RJLY 8 I T is expected that proceedings on the Transport Bill will be substantially completed by July 8, writes our legal adviser. Report stage will probably be taken next week and Third Reading will follow a few days later.
Having regard to the Government's anxiety to pass the Bill, the subsequent stages may be expected to be concluded rapidly. The Government is unlikely to accept many of the major amendments by the House of Lords and authoritative sources believe that the peers will not press the most contentious questions_
Thus, there is little hope that the Government will be forced to go to the country on the nationalization of road transport.
D.T.O.s TO CLEAR DOUBTS ON NATIONALIZATION
REPLYING to assertions made by Lieut.-Col. Dower, in the House of, Commons last week, the Minister of Transport stated that trained staff at the offices of the Licensing Authorities And the district transport officers were ready to explain the provisions of the Transport Bill to hauliers who might have doubts as to whether they were to be nationalized.
The Minister said that he would consider publishing the Bill in simplified form when it became an Act.
SPEED LIMIT TO BE RAISED?
MEGOTTATIONS amongst interested I parties are proceeding with a view to raising the maximum speed limit for commercial vehicles, said the Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons, on Monday.
The Transport and General Workers' Union has been consulted and its reply is awaited.